*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[flibbertyjibber]

Make them follow on. Time for bed, I expect Aussies to be at least 2 down in 2nd dig by close.

 

[Midwinter]

49 runs in the last hour
81 for the session

 

[Midwinter]

Depends. Only one of the drops happened on Day 1 and that was a genuinely difficult one.

Yikes. That's a great ball. Surprised he didn't review, think it would've been clipping.

only has to be in line if it got him on the full.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Four of your Top 5 batsmen being lefties looks a serious liability. Trouble is they're the four batsmen who's place in the team looks the most solid....

Nah, being not good enough Test batsmen is a serious liability

If they were Langer, Hayden, Border & Hussey it wouldn't be a problem

 

[Gnske]

Three great players and the other AB

 

[halba]

game over. aussies to lose the test on day 4. and rightly so. the batting sucks on paper, even worse in real life.

 

[morgieb]

only has to be in line if it got him on the full.

I meant more like "would it have hit the stumps". Was full enough it probably was but I felt there was a possible chance it might have slid down leg.

 

[morgieb]

Nah, being not good enough Test batsmen is a serious liability

If they were Langer, Hayden, Border & Hussey it wouldn't be a problem

Yeah this is true. I'm more saying that a right-handed batsman of comparable ability might be faring better.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I meant more like "would it have hit the stumps". Was full enough it probably was but I felt there was a possible chance it might have slid down leg.

I think midwinter is saying that if it hits on the full then it doesn't matter if it was sliding down or not, as long as it hits in line with the stumps, it's out

Not sure if that is still the rule but it sounds right

 

[vicleggie]

I'm not attempting anything. I'm trying to respond to your nonsensical drivel in the most appropriate yet respectable manner possible. If I was trying to be condescending it would look a lot worse.

Thank you for sparing me, fearsome one

 

[morgieb]

I think midwinter is saying that if it hits on the full then it doesn't matter if it was sliding down or not, as long as it hits in line with the stumps, it's out

Not sure if that is still the rule but it sounds right

That makes zero sense given that the most important part of an LBW shout is whether the ball is hitting the stumps.....

 

[TheJediBrah]

Thank you for sparing me, fearsome one

No worries. You seem like a good kid, I don't want to be responsible for inflicting that kind of trauma

That makes zero sense given that the most important part of an LBW shout is whether the ball is hitting the stumps.....

***** to comment

As I said I'm not sure if that's the rule or not but it definitely sounds familiar

 

[Dan]

Weirdest interpretation of the LBW rule, that.

Treat the ball as if it continues on its current trajectory, as with any other LBW decision.

EDIT:
NSWCUSA's Technical Interpretations from 2009:
"If it does not pitch, the umpire has no alternative to rule that the ball after impact would have continued along the same line it was travelling before impact."
(http://nswcusa.nsw.cricket.com.au/files/15548/files/hows that/lbw tutorial.pdf)

And Law 36.2.3:
"In assessing point 36.1.5 [i.e. whether it was hitting the stumps], it is to be assumed that the path of the ball before interception would have continued after interception, irrespective of whether the ball might have pitched subsequently or not."
(https://www.lords.org/mcc/laws/leg-before-wicket)

 

[cnerd123]

As I said I'm not sure if that's the rule or not but it definitely sounds familiar

sounds like the kind of garbage spewed by guys who have spent 30 years playing club cricket but never once bothered to read the actual laws

 

[Dan]

sounds like the kind of garbage spewed by guys who have spent 30 years playing club cricket but never once bothered to read the actual laws

Yeah I have genuinely heard that one a lot tbh. Incredibly common misconception, and I don't fully understand why.

A decision along the lines of "it was missing leg by miles but it hit you on the full in front of leg stump, so off you go" makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[morgieb]

That's the advantage of playing little club cricket. Means I don't have to listen to 60 year old codgers talking ****.

 

[TheJediBrah]

sounds like the kind of garbage spewed by guys who have spent 30 years playing club cricket but never once bothered to read the actual laws

I said multiple times that I wasn't sure if it was the rule or not, but that I'd heard it somewhere. No need to be a dick about it.

 

[Midwinter]

was it Smith who was given out when he was hit on the full when he was half way down the pitch

 

[morgieb]

was it Smith who was given out when he was hit on the full when he was half way down the pitch

That was hitting the stumps though......(well technically clipping and it's not the sort of decision I'd like to see be given out but it's not really what we're talking about)

 

[silentstriker]

GREAT DELIVERY by Bumrah....he is special.

I wouldn’t enforce the follow on unless the weather forecast is looking iffy. There is a short turnaround before the next game, I would bat them out of this one. Declare after lunch tomorrow at some point, assuming you can last that long.